South Park: The Stick of Truth Aims to Make Video Games Funny

By

Yannick LeJacq

Mar 10, 2014 10:00 am ET

It seems like anything Trey Parker and Matt Stone touch turns into gold. They probably would call it something much more foul than that, but you know what I mean. There’s “South Park,” their long running comedy series that continues to amuse and offend viewers in equal measure. Then there’s “The Book of Mormon,” the acclaimed musical. Somehow they’ve also found time to produce, direct, and star in a number of feature films.This week, the comedy duo stepped into another world entirely with South Park: The Stick of Truth—video games.

They’ve been down the video game road before, licensing South Park to game developers when the show was first starting out. But neither of them had much to do with games like the eponymous 1998 shooter or the racing game South Park Rally that came out in 2000. The work suffered as a result.

It was a bad experience before, so then we said: well, let’s do it ourselves,” Trey Parker told me over the phone.

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